S8 Ep1133: Charles Burton criticizes the lack of transparency regarding Chinese infiltration in the Canadian government. He argues that Prime Minister Carney's administration prioritizes business interests over national sovereignty, ignoring warnings about espionage
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Charles Burton criticizes the lack of transparency regarding Chinese infiltration in the Canadian government. He argues that Prime Minister Carney's administration prioritizes business interests over national sovereignty, ignoring warnings about espionage and transnational repression while pursuing empty promises of doubled trade from Beijing to counter US tariffs. (8)
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| 0:50.3 | Burton, our colleague at the Synopsis Institute in Ottawa, looking at a headline written |
| 0:56.1 | for a article by Charles Burton in the Globe and Mail. That's the number one paper in Canada. |
| 1:02.0 | How many more times will Beijing fool Canada's politicians? Charles, your remarks summarize |
| 1:08.0 | years of questions unanswered about China's influence peddling in Canada. |
| 1:14.3 | The new prime minister is aware of all of these details. Is he addressing the matter directly to |
| 1:19.2 | the Parliament or to the people of Canada? The short answer to that question is no. He's not |
| 1:26.3 | very responsive to Parliament. He seems to see himself as a CEO of the country. |
| 1:31.3 | He doesn't attend question period very often. And he doesn't seem to be taking parliamentary |
| 1:37.6 | committees very seriously. And in general, his advisors are no longer cabinet ministers, members of Parliament, but important |
| 1:49.7 | and successful figures in finance and business who are taking up key positions in the |
| 1:56.5 | prime minister's office. |
| 1:57.4 | So the disrespect for democratic institutions under Mr. Carney |
| 2:03.2 | continues apace. So I don't think that he's been responsive to this at all, but what we're |
| 2:09.2 | seeing is a great increase in the amount of Canadian elite business engagement with China, including |
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